Orange Daisy Glasses

The glasses exhibit evolved from photographs taken for eBay auctions. While waiting for bidding value of these common objects, the process created a secondary value, the idealized image in the photograph. This series became a reminder of Joseph Cornell’s fascination with movies, movie stars, and other beautiful public women. Serendipity, public exposure and perception, the invention of film, and Cornell elevated what could have remained common or generic into ‘works of art’. The glasses exhibit explores the conversion of "unknowns" to "star" status through chance, the fickle process of choosing, and transformation through reproductive media.